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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you heard the English spoken by any of these Chinese students who learned English in a one-way immersion setting? I have, and without exception, it has always been heavily accented (sometimes impossible to understand) and grammatically incorrect. [b]And English isn't a level 4 language[/b].[/quote]

Considering it's a designation by the FSI (Foreign Service Institute) of the U.S. State Department, that's not exactly surprising.  Our government expects its own employees to speak English, Sherlock.   :roll:

For non-speakers of English, it's actually a very complex language being based 60% on Germanic languages and 40% on Latin-based languages.  It's not the only hard language to learn, but like Russian and Mandarin it is one of the hardest.

https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/learning-english-hard.html

And yet people do it.

Given the enormous advantages and resources the YY kids have, they're easily going to be the best Chinese speakers in the city, perhaps the region, and they are going to do that without the Cantonese snowflakes.
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